Amazon Web Services Review

Amazon Web Services reviewAWS is a provider of an infrastructure web services platform concentrated in the cloud. (Infrastructure-as-a-service) 1. What factors contribute to the growth in popularity of AWS? AWS is becoming more and more popular with time, because of it has some competitive advantages: * Cost-effectiveness. No up-front payments. No long-term contracts. Customers pay only for actual usage of services with help of their credit card (Pay as you go). * Dependability. AWS provides massive storage space and tested platforms, providing scalable and secure operations. * Flexibility. Customers are allowed to build their own applications using amazon’s platforms. * Comprehensive solutions. Amazon can incorporate its services with customer’s previous solutions to provide even more cost-effectiveness. * Reliability. Millions of transactions per minute. A lot of commodity hardware which can pick up in case of some technical failures on the other hardware. (always-on and self-healing infrastructure) * Great amount of apps on the one side and availability to install whatever OS or other soft customer wants on the other side. * Network externalities. More customers More apps Economies of scale (spreading fixed hardware costs between higher number of users) Lower prices. * Environmental friendly. Amazon uses cutting age cooling technologies for its datacenters to produce smaller footprint. 2. How does AWS differ from other cloud service providers? For example MS Azure and Google Apps are best described as platform-as-a-service. Customers can develop their own code based on platforms provided by Microsoft or Google. Also customers can use MS or Google respectful solutions. Customer can easily add a number of instances to run his applications, that lets to scale capacity and control costs. AWS’s model is characterized as an infrastructure-as-a-service. It’s like a virtual machine technology, but also provides lots of additional...

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